The College of Nursing and Health Professions
Center City Campus
New College Building was designed to be an education, research, and administrative facility for the University. Most seminar rooms, the library, laboratories, and lounge areas in the building are available for student use. There are lounge areas where students may gather to study or to relax together. The Office of the Dean for Student Life and the Office of University Student Life are located in this building.
Clinical Learning Resource Center
The Clinical Learning Resource Center (CLRC) provides a simulated environment in which students can safely learn and practice clinical skills.
Students practice head-to-toe assessments, invasive as well as non-invasive procedures and interpersonal skills. Students also have an opportunity learn how to manage real-life emergencies and real-life clinical situation with SIM-MAN®, a simulated patient who has the ability to mimic patient scenarios. The CLRC consists of:
- a physical assessment lab
- a media center and media classroom
- a nursing therapeutics lab
- two rehabilitation sciences labs
- SIM-MAN®
Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation Practice
The Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation and Practice (CICSP) is designed to simulate clinical settings, providing undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to learn and enhance their skills. Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions uses a state-of-the-art digital recording system through which all student-patient encounters are recorded. Students, faculty, and standardized patients (SPs) are able to observe their patient encounters at a later date as a form of self-evaluation. Students and SPs are digitally video/audio taped in patient examination rooms, each fully equipped with the necessary assessment tools as well as pan/zoom/tilt cameras and microphones.
Computers in every exam room and laptop stations outside each exam room enable standardized patients and students to complete checklists and post-encounter exercises based on the patient case. Students may also be asked to engage in patient education, interpret lab results, field difficult communication or ethical dilemmas, use psychotherapeutic techniques or use other clinical skill sets. All of this is achieved through the use of a sophisticated automated performance evaluation software application.
Members of the faculty are present during the standardized patient sessions, observing the digitally video-taped encounters from computer monitors. They then offer feedback to the student during follow-up discussions. This is all completed within the controlled and safe environment of our center. As a result, the students gain confidence and a level of comfort with SPs before working with real patients. Errors made or difficulties encountered with SPs can be addressed prior to the students working with real patients.
Creative Arts Therapies Studios
The PhD Program in Creative Arts Therapies has three separate art, dance/movement, and music therapy studio spaces. The studios are equipped for the intensive study of each art form within the therapy context for the purpose of enhancing clinical practice or generating research in the creative arts therapies.
The University Libraries
Four library branches serve the educational, clinical, and research needs of
health sciences students at Drexel University. These branches house more than
185,000 volumes, receive approximately 1,500 current journal subscriptions,
have access to the full text of more than 2,000 electronic journals and use
up-to-date information technologies to provide access to institutional and
intramural information sources.
Library collections are searchable through online catalogs at all
library sites, or remotely via the Internet. Also available are MEDLINE,
the primary database
of biomedical information, and specialized databases including PSYCLIT (psychology)
and PD! (cancer. ) PCs and Macintosh computers are available, as well
as computer-assisted instruction and simulation programs.
More information about the libraries, extensive electronic resources, and guides
to services are available on the libraries’ web site at www.library.drexel.edu.
